FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Two Flagler County deputies and a Bunnell police officer were injured Tuesday night while arresting a \u201ccombative\u201d DUI driver, according to sheriff\u2019s officials.<\/p>\n
Deputies responded to assist Bunnell police with a DUI investigation around 7 p.m. in the area of East Moody Boulevard and North Palmetto Street.<\/p>\n
According to the Flagler County Sheriff\u2019s Office, 56-year-old Richard Lakin made an illegal U-turn and police conducted a traffic stop.<\/p>\n
Richard Lakin, 56. (Flagler County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n
Lakin told law enforcement he had just left a bar and drank four beers, deputies said. He had \u201cslurred speech, bloodshot and glassy eyes, the odor of alcohol on his breath, and an argumentative demeanor,\u201d according to a release.<\/p>\n
During a field sobriety test, deputies said Lakin became \u201cvisibly angry and argumentative\u201d and then started walking toward an officer\u2019s patrol car saying, \u201cYou all got me\u201d and that he was going to jail.<\/p>\n
Deputies said Lakin became \u201ceven more agitated\u201d during the arrest and began to resist before he was taken to the ground and handcuffed. The sheriff\u2019s office said while he was on the ground, Lakin began flailing his legs and hit one deputy, causing a \u201cminor abrasion.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cStop, what\u2019s the matter with you,\u201d one deputy is heard on bodycamera video while trying to handcuff Lakin.<\/p>\n
Officials said a Bunell officer and two Flagler deputies were injured with \u201cabrasions and gashes\u201d during the \u201cscuffle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flagler County Fire Rescue responded to treat Lakin, who began yelling and hitting his head on the cage in the patrol car, deputies said.<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said deputies found a half-full beer in the back of Lakin\u2019s car during a search.<\/p>\n
Lakin was previously arrested in 2021 for battery and obstruction without violence, when he shoved a bartender and resisted arrest. He pled no contest to those charges and adjudication was withheld. He also has a history out of Duval County, where he was charged with disorderly intoxication, battery, and obstruction without violence in 2017. His previous charges also extend outside of Florida, he was charged with possession, assault, and destruction of property in Maryland.<\/p>\n
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Lakin was arrested and faces charges of DUI, resisting with violence, three counts of battery on a law enforcement officer and refusal to submit to a breath test.<\/p>\n
He was taken to jail, where he was later released on $14,000 bond.<\/p>\n
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